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She is the [[Carnegie Centenary Professor]] for 2017 at the [[University of St Andrews]].{{r|ccp}}
She is the [[Carnegie Centenary Professor]] for 2017 at the [[University of St Andrews]].{{r|ccp}}

==Selected publications==
*{{citation
| last1 = Cannings | first1 = C.
| last2 = Thompson | first2 = E. A.
| last3 = Skolnick | first3 = M. H.
| doi = 10.1017/s0001867800029475
| issue = 1
| journal = [[Advances in Applied Probability]]
| pages = 26–61
| title = Probability functions on complex pedigrees
| volume = 10
| year = 1978}}
*{{citation
| last1 = Guo | first1 = Sun Wei
| last2 = Thompson | first2 = Elizabeth A.
| issue = 2
| journal = [[Biometrics (journal)|Biometrics]]
| jstor = 2532296
| pages = 361–372
| title = Performing the exact test of Hardy–Weinberg proportion for multiple alleles
| volume = 48
| year = 1992}}
*{{citation
| last1 = Geyer | first1 = Charles J.
| last2 = Thompson | first2 = Elizabeth A.
| issue = 3
| journal = [[Journal of the Royal Statistical Society]]
| series = Series B (Methodological)
| jstor = 2345852
| pages = 657–699
| title = Constrained Monte Carlo maximum likelihood for dependent data
| volume = 54
| year = 1992}}
*{{citation
| last1 = Geyer | first1 = Charles J.
| last2 = Thompson | first2 = Elizabeth A.
| doi = 10.1080/01621459.1995.10476590
| issue = 431
| journal = [[Journal of the American Statistical Association]]
| pages = 909–920
| title = Annealing Markov chain Monte Carlo with applications to ancestral inference
| volume = 90
| year = 1995}}
*{{citation
| last1 = Anderson | first1 = E. C.
| last2 = Thompson | first2 = E. A.
| issue = 3
| journal = [[Genetics (journal)|Genetics]]
| pages = 1217–1229
| title = A model-based method for identifying species hybrids using multilocus genetic data
| url = http://www.genetics.org/content/160/3/1217
| volume = 160
| year = 2002}}


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 18:01, 18 September 2017

Elizabeth Alison Thompson (born May 22, 1949) is an British-born American statistician at the University of Washington.[1] Her research concerns the use of genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations.[2] She is the 2017–2018 president of the International Biometric Society.[3]

Education and career

Thompson studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, earning first-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1970 and completing a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1971.[1] She continued at Cambridge for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in statistics in 1974 under the supervision of A. W. F. Edwards.[1][4]

After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics and mathematical statistics and fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She became a fellow of Newnham in 1981. She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in 1985, and added a joint appointment to the Department of Biostatistics in 1988. She became a US citizen in 1997.[1]

Awards and honors

Thompson received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge in 1988,[1] and became an honorary fellow of Newnham in 2013.[1][5]

She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.[1] In 2008 she joined the National Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

She is the Carnegie Centenary Professor for 2017 at the University of St Andrews.[6]

Selected publications

  • Cannings, C.; Thompson, E. A.; Skolnick, M. H. (1978), "Probability functions on complex pedigrees", Advances in Applied Probability, 10 (1): 26–61, doi:10.1017/s0001867800029475
  • Guo, Sun Wei; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1992), "Performing the exact test of Hardy–Weinberg proportion for multiple alleles", Biometrics, 48 (2): 361–372, JSTOR 2532296
  • Geyer, Charles J.; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1992), "Constrained Monte Carlo maximum likelihood for dependent data", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological), 54 (3): 657–699, JSTOR 2345852
  • Geyer, Charles J.; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1995), "Annealing Markov chain Monte Carlo with applications to ancestral inference", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90 (431): 909–920, doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476590
  • Anderson, E. C.; Thompson, E. A. (2002), "A model-based method for identifying species hybrids using multilocus genetic data", Genetics, 160 (3): 1217–1229

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 2017, retrieved 2017-09-17
  2. ^ a b "Two UW profs elected to National Academy of Sciences", UWNews, University of Washington, May 1, 2008
  3. ^ Governance, International Biometric Society, retrieved 2017-09-17
  4. ^ Elizabeth A. Thompson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Honorary Fellows, Newnham College, retrieved 2017-09-17
  6. ^ Professor Elizabeth Thompson, The Carnegie Trust, retrieved 2017-09-18
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